Comments on: Why investigative journalism needs to get networked http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/08/05/why-investigative-journalism-needs-to-get-networked/ A conversation. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By:   links for 05-08-08 by edwalker.net http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/08/05/why-investigative-journalism-needs-to-get-networked/#comment-6324   links for 05-08-08 by edwalker.net Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:20:56 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=1213#comment-6324 [...] Paul Bradshaw about the role that blogging/online/networked journalism can play online. Although, Paul does point out that this article wasn’t just about blogging but about investigative journalism as a whole. [...] [...] Paul Bradshaw about the role that blogging/online/networked journalism can play online. Although, Paul does point out that this article wasn’t just about blogging but about investigative journalism as a whole. [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Walker http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/08/05/why-investigative-journalism-needs-to-get-networked/#comment-6323 Jonathan Walker Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:07:22 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=1213#comment-6323 Interesting piece, and you give some great examples of readers (people?) digging up information – enhancing traditional media in the case of the construction story, but replacing it, to an extent at least, in the pet food story. But I think the interweb is creating an evolutionary change in what journalism is about, not a revolution. Newspapers have always appealed to readers for information. Some of the best stories have always come from “the man in the pub” (with the obvious problem of trying to work out how reliable he is). Journalists have always collaborated with other people, such as campaigning groups, on research. What the internet does is to make it possible to do this more, better, and on a bigger scale. How exactly you make best use of the internet is another question, and a pretty big one. I don’t disagree with anything you said or that it’s worth saying, I just think the language should be even more about the opportunities the internet presents for better (and in some cases *easier*) journalism. Interesting piece, and you give some great examples of readers (people?) digging up information – enhancing traditional media in the case of the construction story, but replacing it, to an extent at least, in the pet food story.

But I think the interweb is creating an evolutionary change in what journalism is about, not a revolution. Newspapers have always appealed to readers for information. Some of the best stories have always come from “the man in the pub” (with the obvious problem of trying to work out how reliable he is). Journalists have always collaborated with other people, such as campaigning groups, on research.

What the internet does is to make it possible to do this more, better, and on a bigger scale. How exactly you make best use of the internet is another question, and a pretty big one.

I don’t disagree with anything you said or that it’s worth saying, I just think the language should be even more about the opportunities the internet presents for better (and in some cases *easier*) journalism.

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